Boston scientific common stock Videos

• 1. Analyst Insight: Morgan Stanley Sees Longer-Term Debate For Boston Scientific Becoming More Central
• 2. Morning Market Snapshot: October 20th, 2010
• 3. Morning Market Snapshot: September 29, 2011
• 4. 'Mindless' Picks: BBRY, Molycorp
• 5. A Critical Look at Social Media for Science Communication PART 1
• 6. Dan Ariely - Why Do Placebos Work?
• 7. Dan Ariely - Finding Cheating's "Comfort Level"
• 8. Preston Estep - Genome and Telomeres - Boston QS

Analyst Insight: Morgan Stanley Sees Longer-Term Debate For Boston Scientific Becoming More Central

Morning Market Snapshot: October 20th, 2010

Morning Market Snapshot: September 29, 2011

'Mindless' Picks: BBRY, Molycorp

User Comments

GroundLittleHog commented on 30 Jun 2013

Did he mean brainless?

A Critical Look at Social Media for Science Communication PART 1

Dan Ariely - Why Do Placebos Work?

User Comments

P.M. Laberge commented on 20 Jan 2012

Well, then, how come there are so many people on real drugs, who never get well? I know a lady who's gone through every test there is, has been under treatment for 8 mos. She's no chicken or idiot. Heck, she'd be a good Vulcan. The pain is still there, the leg swelling etc. symptoms still there. The treatments? $60 a pop. Instead of Chemo, we should treat cancer patients with sugar water. We could charge the same, and doctors & medical corporations could make a fortune!

envanje commented on 19 Feb 2011

More ancient versions of this "placebo theory" are "shamanism", "exorcism", "witchcraft" and many other. If the illness is pure psychological it actually can heal the patient if he believes in the treatment. If the illness is physical it will not prove a cure though it may be helpfull to put the patient on a positive attitude towards his treatment. Even with the right medicines it is difficult to treat a patient with a negative attitude towards his therapy.

Scott Burch commented on 30 May 2008

I'd like to know what happens when you test between countries. I think this is this US For example. I designed a electronic device that cost around $1400. I had problems selling it in the US and and I could not figure out why. Several people who tried it told me that it worked great, but it was too light. I changed the case from plastic to metal and added a plate in the bottom to give it additional weight. Sales went up in the United States.

luckynumber58 commented on 26 Aug 2009

im actually oposite of what he said in the video. if i know painkillers are cheap i will think that i have access to more and consentrate on the effects ti see how much i need or if thats enough. but if ihave expensive painkillers i expect them to work the first time and fell uneasy about them the whole time because i have to rely on them so heavily. thank you if you've actually read this insanely long comment.

Stormy Shadow commented on 29 Aug 2011

This one time, one of my friends kept complaining of a terrible headache, so I took this as an opportunity to try out the Placebo effect, so I clenched his neck in a few random ways (That I knew would have no effect on him) and I told him it was an old remedy, he believed me and his headache went away.

saintsigh commented on 27 Feb 2010

When my Ins plan changed and I was forced to pay a lot more out of pocket, I found I became MORE critical of quality of care and the amount of time wasted due to poor practice (MD running late, over booking, etc.) I'm paying more, and now far more discerning about quality, value. Pretty predictable.

Ray Slim commented on 25 Mar 2009

It's funny to think that if you don't have insurance when you go to a doctor's office and you have to pay out of pocket, the fact that you're paying more (at that time) to the office could make the treatment work better. In that case, I call for Universal NON-Healthcare!

NIMONIMONIMO333 commented on 13 Sep 2010

If you can use hypnosis on yourself, it will have the same effect. Works 10x better than getting drunk on ethanol to lower the pain. Hmm, pharmacists should learn on how to hypnotize the patients & make them think they've taken some magical pain meds (no side effects!).

metalhaze1982 commented on 21 Sep 2008

interesting yet there is a tendency of overgeneralization in his conclusions. some ppl have more control over their thoughts and emotions than others so this psycho mind trick could work on ppl with low degree of self-control

Bryant Jen commented on 10 Apr 2008

no he's not, it can be applied, but just listen to all of his examples, they interesting and important enough in their own respects. religion is already pervasive in far too many topics, lets not inject it unnecesarily

Scott Sommers commented on 28 May 2009

Why does placebo work just as well as anti-depressants? This is like asking why placebo works better than trepanation. Anti-depressants don't work very well. I'm confused how anyone could reach a different conclusion.

jkeller2008 commented on 27 Jan 2010

@stdeelee No way dude. Ok, maybe i'm kindof a dick but if you met this cat you'd know what i mean. Anyways it wasnt my pubes, but the point was the placebo affect. He freakin thought he was high ahaha

latestranger commented on 24 Jun 2009

It sounds sort of French... but I'm not really sure. I think it's a mix of French and something else... maybe something Germanic. (I don't actually know, so don't take me too seriously)

jkeller2008 commented on 10 Jan 2010

i gave a guy a blunt full of pubic hair and he said he got high haha his names Adrian "Dong" An and he's a piece of shit who lives in San Fransisco, CA. Make fun of his punk ass

DionysianAssassin commented on 06 Mar 2009

Its amazing to learn of the sheer scope of the placebo effect. When you consider these examples, you have to wonder about all the implications in every area of our lives.

Domzdream commented on 02 Apr 2008

He's talking about religion I think. It's a metaphor for people believing in something they cannot see or hear, but it makes them feel good inside. I think thats it.

Andy Cohen commented on 12 Jul 2011

Dan raises the question on how our expectations effect our outcomes and the application of this knowledge to the pricing of medicine and services.

ZDoggMD commented on 12 Jul 2010

@mysund Yup. The brand name sugar pill that has no generic yet will show itself to be statistically superior in a placebo versus placebo trial.

Dan Ariely - Finding Cheating's "Comfort Level"

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prygler commented on 01 Aug 2013

The experiment hardly says to what extent these described mechanisms Work. How powerful are they really? A few dollars or some cents as economic incentives to cheat can hardly be called good or high or even medium economic incentives. The experiment merely shows psychological mechanisms, but not the extent of their psychological power. I think more research is needed in about this.

S miles commented on 23 Jun 2009

Aaah, but did the ppl in the 2nd group tell their answers out loud one by one or without being influenced by all the previous answers. Because everybody in the experiment could have been influenced by the first few answers, like in the Asch experiment.

27cynthia commented on 16 Nov 2008

This is such a good book--Dan's bubbling intelligence roams from one subject to another connecting them all with the thread of our weird-when-you-examine-it behavior

flyhead2 commented on 18 Apr 2009

Always interesting and enlightening information from Dan; what he says seems intuitively correct, in hindsight.

Donal O Flynn commented on 03 Sep 2011

He is very interesting to listen too ! Also he looks like Slyvester Stalone !! Thats a plus !

AspiringPotato commented on 26 Sep 2010

Fascinating. I like FORA. Although their slogan, "the world is thinking" is a blatant lie.

edward wilcocks commented on 01 Sep 2009

awesome book gets you thinking. I want to learn more and go to MIT.. awesome.

anvarts commented on 05 Oct 2009

Go to Duke - he is teaching there now. :)

lionheartSONIC21 commented on 17 Nov 2008

LOL

Preston Estep - Genome and Telomeres - Boston QS